March 15, 2021 - Epoch Times
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| U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will meet with their Chinese counterparts Wang Yi and Yang Jiechi in Alaska on March 18, the first high-level in-person meeting between the two countries since President Joe Biden took office in January. | |
| However, Beijing and Washington defined the meeting very differently. | |
| Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian announced on the ministry's website, China, invited by the United States, will have a high-level strategic dialogue with the U.S. side in the coming days. | |
| Zhao's use of strategic dialogue directly contradicted Blinken's remarks at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on March 10, who stressed that the meeting is not a strategic dialogue. | |
| This is an important opportunity for us to lay out in very frank terms the many concerns that we have with Beijing's actions and behavior that are challenging the security, the prosperity, and the values of the United States and our partners and allies. | |
| Zhao also expressed in his statement that he hopes the Biden administration will bring the China-U.S. relations back to the right track of sound and steady development, while Blinken explained at the hearing that there is no intent at this point for a series of follow-on engagements. | |
| Those engagements, if they are to follow, really have to be based on the proposition that we're seeing tangible progress and tangible outcomes on the issues of concern to us with China, he said. | |
| US-based current affairs commentator Tang Jingyuan believes that the US-China clash on how to define the meeting reflects the real situation of the Chinese Communist Party, CCP. The CCP is so eager to start a formal dialogue and to restore its relationship with the United States. | |
| In comparison, the United States purposely presented in a different gesture. | |
| This contrast reveals that the Cold War Trump launched against the CCP during his term has put the CCP in a very difficult situation. | |
| Secondly, it validates Mike Pompeo's statement from his CPAC speech. | |
| China depends more on us than we do them. | |
| Blinken will start his first Asia trip on March 13 to visit Japan and South Korea, two U.S. allies in East Asia. | |
| Instead of continuing his trip to Beijing to meet with the Chinese officials, Blinken will meet them in Anchorage, Alaska on his way back. | |
| This arrangement incurred ridicule from Chinese netizens who dislike the CCP. Last year, the meeting between Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi and Pompeo was held in warm and picturesque Hawaii, but this time the meeting will be held in snow-covered Alaska. | |
| The choice of this location is intriguing. | |
| According to the forecast, local temperature at Anchorage, Alaska may drop to 13 degrees Fahrenheit on the day of the meeting. | |
| Icy cold weather as China seeks to break the ice with the United States. | |
| According to U.S.-based commentator Ge Bidong, after Biden took office and made some pro-communist moves, The Biden administration must have realized that cozying up with the CCP will cause a huge crisis of trust both in the international community and among the American people. | |
| Therefore, Blinken has been very cautious when dealing with the CCP. In a recent interview with Voice of America, the Biden administration has declared openly that it will not abandon Trump's policies on China. | |
| However, as the Biden administration wants to overturn Trump's principle of America first, it has reset the tone on US-China relations, regarding China as both a rival and a partner. | |
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